Inventory Control Requirements

Definition

The maintenance of up-to-date information accounting for and locating all objects for which the organization has a legal responsibility. This may include objects on loan, unaccessioned or previously undocumented items, temporarily deposited objects and support collections.

Requirements

  • Enable accountability for any object, at any time;
  • Enable the provision of up-to-date information about all objects in the care of the organization
    • including loans in and out, temporarily deposited objects and other unaccessioned objects;
  • Provide a reference to ownership of each object;
  • Provide the current location of each object.

Standards, Guidelines + Use Cases

Use Cases and Community Design Workshop Notes

Spectrum: Inventory Control

Wireframes

No separate wireframes; see additions to Wireframes - Location and Movement Control

Services

Fields

Inventory Control Schema

Workflow


Definition and requirements from:
Spectrum Version 3.1
Created and Maintained by CollectionsTrust
http://www.mda.org.uk/spectrum.htm